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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who offers the American prisoners shelter after the bombing?
(a) An abbess in a nunnery
(b) A blind innkeeper
(c) The Red Cross
(d) A factory owner

2. What does the author compare the march of American prisoners to?
(a) The young people in the Children's Crusade
(b) Water flowing downhill into a large river
(c) Caribou migrating across the Arctic plains
(d) Ants moving their anthill to a new location

3. What play do the British officers perform for the Americans?
(a) The Trojan War
(b) Cinderella
(c) Hamlet
(d) Sleeping Beauty

4. What play do the English prisoners put on to welcome the Americans?
(a) The Glass Menagerie
(b) Hamlet
(c) Cinderella
(d) Macbeth

5. What do the Tralfamadorans do with Billy?
(a) They ask him about Earth culture.
(b) They use him to test medicines.
(c) They put him on display in a zoo.
(d) They perform intelligence tests on him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Kilgore Trout doing when Billy first meets him?

2. Which of these was not the subject of a book by Kilgore Trout?

3. What does the barbershop quartet at the anniversary party remind Billy of?

4. Why does one of the Germans beat up an American prisoner of war?

5. What interrupts Billy's attempt at napping?

(see the answer key)

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